[WikiEN-l] Unused userboxes

[SCZenz]

On 1/7/06, Ben Emmel <bratsche1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/6/06, Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia <zzyzx11 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Here's something that crossed my mind:
> >
> > As the number of userboxes continues to increase, I am starting to see a
> > number of them that are currently NOT being used by ANYONE. So in a couple
> > weeks from now, if these same userboxes are still not being used on any
> > userpage, shouldn't they be put on TFD like any other unused, orphaned
> > template? Why or why not?
> >
> > Zzyzx11 at en.wikipedia.org
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zzyzx11
> > zzyzx11 at hotmail.com
> >
>
> Check out [[WP:TFD]] right now. Currently,  there is a whole bunch of
> userbox warriors that are going to stall and keep any userbox that comes
> their way. In short, the box is going to get kept anyways. An example of
> this is {{User fair use}}, which Jimbo himself deleted before being informed
> of the TfD debate, which is really irrelevant, considering that we can't
> disobey the US copyright law that Wikipedia is legally obligated to fllow.
>
> Looks to me that the userbox editors are disrupting the flow and work of
> Wikipedia, but I'd be interested to hear what others think. Those who have
> five times as many userbox edits as mainspace edits can't be helping
> Wikipedia all that much.

I hope the admin who decides closes the {{User fair use}} debate
evaluates the quality of the arguments made in relation to the
encyclopedia's mission; it'll be deleted then.

SCZenz